#dangerous

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#dangerous #enough #forth #go #missionaries

Goddammit!” Zane lashed out without warning and hit the water bottle, sending it skidding across the carpet and splattering at Julian’s feet. “I’m gonna end up in the fucking madhouse because of you!” He reached out and grabbed Ty’s wrist, pulling him closer. “Loving you is going to make me fucking insane! I said no, and I mean it! ↗

— Abigail Roux

#ty-and-zane #love

Agonized by her longing to go on thinking of her lover, and her fear of damnation if she does, she has hit on the idea of praying God to make her forget him and as she keeps on making this prayer every minute of the day, she's found a way of never letting him out of her mind. ↗

— De Laclos

#les-liaisons-dangereuses #love #love

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. ↗

— David Gerrold

#typewriters #men

Just remember,” he told her. “If you run from me, I will pursue. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#dangerous #evil-men #scary #threats #men

My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous." "Men like that always are. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#books #burn #dangerous #men

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#dangerous #desire #duality #heterosexuality #perfect

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#dangerous #done #get #himself #lot

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#around #dangerous #get #happened #itself

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#always #being #beyond #breakthrough #crazy